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Thursday, May 19, 2005

RSS Club Meeting - Learn all about blogs and RSS feeds to keep you uptodate

Hi all,

Dr. Jean-Claude Bradley, Coordinator for E-Learning at the College of Arts and Sciences at Drexel University, has recently started a new initiative to enhance the use of RSS (Really Simple Syndication) technology in teaching and learning.

The RSS Club meets every Friday at 12 pm in MacAlister Hall in room 4020. You are all invited. We are all learning from this new technology so your participation may result in some good discussion in the process.

Using Bloglines you can create your individual account and add feeds from scientific journals and results of your search queries based on Ei Compendex (Engineering Village). Simply click on RSS or XML icon and copy and paste that URL into your bloglines account. You do not need to download a separate feed reader. You can access your feeds through bloglines from anywhere without having receive email alerts from number of resources that you might have subscribed for email alerts earlier.

Tables of contents from variety of journals such as Nature, Nature Biotechnology, Nature Materials and those from the Institute of Physics can be tracked using this new technology. A complete listing of all RSS feeds from Nature titles is available at Nature Newsfeed. The use of RSS feeds alleviates the need for researchers to subscribe to email alerts since they can be able to view new information from their choice of RSS feeds as one portal.

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“We cannot live for ourselves alone. Our lives are connected by a thousand invisible threads, and along these sympathetic fibers, our actions run as causes and return to us as results.”- Herman Melville

“We cannot live for ourselves alone. Our lives are connected by a thousand invisible threads, and along these sympathetic fibers, our actions run as causes and return to us as results.”- Herman Melville